evaluating sdbd. crown & bridge downbearings in a new piano

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Kris,
Rub the lumps out the best you can cleaning and removing the lumps.
Then steam and rub with SGT Steam. Most of the felt will so back but be
slightly shrunk.
Joe Goss
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> From: kenrpt@mail.cvn.net
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: evaluating sdbd. crown & bridge downbearings in a new piano
> Date: Thursday, September 23, 1999 4:52 PM
> 
> >- I once put an old hammer rest rail felt through the clothes washer to
> >see if the little" lumpies"  would come out.  You know, the ones that
> >form after eons of upright shanks resting on the rail .  It didn't get
> >the lumpies out, they were just cleaner. )
> >
> >Kris Anderson, RPT
> >
> I wonder if Roger Jolly's 'steam treatment' would work better...he said
it
> works on compacted capstan cloth....mmmm.....
> 
> Ken Jankura
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>